Territory



, (No Model.)

F. BOES & H. WINTER.

BREAD AND VEGETABLE CUTTER.

Patented Mar, 80,1886.

7 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRITZ BOES AND HERMANN \VINTER, OF HELENA, MONTANA TERRITORY.

BREAD AND VEGETABLE CUTTER.

SPECIPIECATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 338,819, dated March30, 1886.

Application filed December 11, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FRITZ Boijs and HER MANN \VINTER, of Helena, in thecount-y of Lewis and Clarke and Territory of Montana, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Bread and Vegetable Cutters; andwe do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to an improvement in bread and vegetable cutters.

The object is to provide a simple, effective, and inexpensive machinefor slicing bread, vegetables, meats, &c., and more particularly toimprove the means for feeding the bread, &c., to the knife, the mountingof the knife, and to provide a gradual stop and rebound for the knife.

Vith these ends in view our invention consists in certain features ofconstruction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter describedand pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a View of the cutter inperspective, with knife in elevated adjustment. Fig. 2 is a sectionalview with knife in depressed adjustment.

A represents a suitable base, preferably a flat board, supported at oneend upon a cleat or legs, a, to give it a tilting position declining inthe direction of its cutting end. An upright rectangular-shaped frame,13, is secured to the base at its lower edge, and is provided with aseries of vertical rollers, 11, journaled at suitable intervals therein.A second rectangular-shaped framework, 0, is secured at its lower edgeto the base, a short distance from the lower edge of the frame B, andextends from thence obliquely away from the frame 13. The frame 0 isalso provided with a series of rollers, a, journaled in the upper andlow er railsthereof.

To the corresponding ends of the frames 13 and O a pair of steel orother hard metal bars, D D, are secured, one pair to each end, the barsbeing located a short distance apart, sufficient to admit the blade ofthe knife E loosely between them. The lower ends of the bars D D are setin sockets either formed in the wooden or other base; or they may be setin Serial No.185,397. (No model.)

metallic plates secured to the base. Their upper ends are bound togetherby metallic plates perforated or recessed to receive their ends andsecured to the end and top of the frames B and C, respectively.

The knife E may consist of an ordinary carving-knife, or it may beconstructed with especial reference to use in connection with thecutter. Its point is secured between the oblique bars D D by means ofpins, bolts, or other guides passing through it or secured to its sidesabove and below the bars and adapted to have a free sliding bearing uponthe bars. A rock-arm, F, is secured to the base near the end of theframe-work B, and bars D D at tached thereto. The said rock-arm is heldautomatically in upright adjustment by a spring-bar, G, secured at oneend to the base A, and with its free end resting against the arm F. Acord, g, or its equivalent, is at tached at one end to'the end of thearm F and at the other end to the handle of the knife, in front of theposition which the hand would naturally occupy. An adjusting-screw, H,is set in the end of the arm to regulate the length of the cord. As theknife nears the limit of its downstroke, the tension of thespringpressed arm tends to stop its horizontal move ment and at the sametime stores up an elastic force,which is exerted, as soon as the downcntis completed, in starting the blade 011 its upward course. Thereceptacle for the bread or other article to be sliced, formed by the upright frame B and the oblique frame 0, holds the article snugly, thetendency being to slightly wedge it between the two. Its move menttoward the knife is, however, rendered easy, since its bearing isentirely or nearly so upon the rollers b and c, which enable it to beadvanced without sliding it 011 the sides or bottom. The cut of theknife is made by drawing it toward the operator and allowing the hand todrop enough to keep the blade about level.

By making the edges of the upright bars D D adjacent to the blade of theknife of hard metalsteel, for examplethe travel of the edges betweenthem will have a tendency to keep the edge sharp.

In the place of two bars D D, a single metal plate might be employedhaving a long VIS narrow slot formed therein, the frame B might be setat an oblique angle with the base, and other slight changes in the formand arrangement of the several parts might be resorted to withoutdeparting from the spirit and scope of our invention; hence we do notwish to limit ourselves strictly to the construction guides, and aspring'actuated arm connected to the handle of the knife and adapted togradually-stop and automatically start the knife on the return,substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a frame having knife-guides at one end thereof,and a knife adapted to rise and fall in said guides with a draw-cut, ofaspring-actuated rock-arm conparallel metallic bars'secured to one endof 0 the diverging frame, and the knife secured between said bars invertical and longitudinally-sliding adjustment, substantially as setforth.

4. The combination, with thediverging frame, the two series offeed-rollers adapted to crowd the article to be sliced between them andthe knife-guides located at one end of said frame, of a knife adapted torise and fall in said guides with a draw-cut, substantially as setforth.

5. The combination, witha frame, the two series of feed-rollers adaptedto crowd the article to be sliced between them and the knife-guidesattached to one end of the frame, of the knife secured in the guides,and the spring-actuated rock-arm indirectly connected to the handle endofthe knife, substantially as set forth. 1

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

FRITZ BOES. HERMANN WINTER.

Witnesses:

CHAS. BAUOK, SIMON BoHM.

